A looming financial crisis hidden from electorate 2017 and facing Cayman Islands’ Government after elections?

By Peter Polack

 

1.The Cayman Islands Government has failed to include some $1.3 billion of liabilities for post-retirement healthcare benefits and pension liabilities for civil servants in its recently completed consolidated accounts.

https://caymannewsservice.com/2015/10/cig-ignoring-serious-liabilities/comment-page-1/

2.Representatives of the Finance Ministry have declined to release a Jan. 1, 2014 financial evaluation of the Public Service Pensions system twice in the last six months, citing a pending review of the documentation by Cabinet ministers to occur at a date in the future.

https://www.caymancompass.com/2016/04/19/two-year-old-pension-report-awaits-cabinet-review/

3.The Cayman Islands owes US$312 million [CI$261 million] on what’s known as a “bullet loan” or “balloon payment” loan with the full amount coming due in November 2019.

https://www.caymancompass.com/2016/03/09/uk-minister-warns-of-looming-us312m-debt/

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